(12.) Dionysus's followers appear reveling in vase painting and playing
auloi. There is at times explicit eroticism as well, e.g., the satyr holding
auloi with a [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] hanging from his erect penis on the red-figure plate in Paris (Cliche Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris: Cabinet des Medailles no.
The problem, however, according to Plato, seems to be that a worse person (phauloteros) will not resist being acquainted with a variety of poetic imitations, or even go as far as imitating by means of his own voice a variety of sounds: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]; ('thunder, and the noises of winds and hail and axles and pulleys, and the voices of salpinges and
auloi and syringes and instruments of every kind, and even the sounds of dogs and sheep and birds and his diction (lexis) will consist entirely of imitations by voice and gesture, or will include just a smattering of narration ...' [397a1-b2]).
This sample, taken together with several other small fragments from other sites, indicates that bronze-covered
auloi were quite popular in ancient Israel/Palestine.
Another example is West's treatment of paired auloi, in which he notes the occurrence of paired pipes in musical performance in the Balkans and some Islamic countries.
In this regard, I find it noteworthy that West has been able to provide detailed commentary on several topics, for example, his treatment of extant auloi in corroboration with literary accounts and the limited degree to which such information may shed light on ancient scales.